From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:51:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9u72800.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AFE19A.7020805@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:50:34 -0800")
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:50:34 -0800 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 11/23/2012 11:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Why do you say it has no effect in this case?
>
> It has no effect in TeX because TeX already does
> the right thing with initials. TeX assumes that
> "." ends a sentence unless it's preceded by a capital
> letter. "Jay K. Adams" has a capital letter before
> the period so no @: is needed after the period.
What does TeX do with sentences like these:
"Mary would never do that, nor would I. Would you?"
"We met the mysterious Madame X. She's younger than I thought."
"Walk ten paces to point A. Turn left, then walk 7 paces to point B."
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-23 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-23 19:25 bug#12973: @: overused in manual Paul Eggert
2012-11-23 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-23 20:50 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-23 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-23 23:51 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2012-11-23 23:56 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 0:11 ` Stephen Berman
2012-11-24 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-24 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 1:43 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-24 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 2:03 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-24 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 6:45 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-24 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-24 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-25 0:46 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-25 4:47 ` bug#12973: [TRUNCATED MESSAGE 2692 191817] " Richard Stallman
2012-11-25 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-25 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-26 1:31 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-05 22:31 ` Paul Eggert
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